At least 55 civilians have been killed and 101 wounded in Syria's Aleppo province in the past 24 hours as a result of artillery and mortar shelling by Nusra Front and other terrorist groups,according to the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation at the Hmeimim airbase.

A spokesman for the Russian reconciliation center said on Thursday that terrorists from the al-Nusra Front group continue attacks on settlements in Syria's Aleppo region, including the city of Aleppo itself.

“The shelling is indiscriminate, targeting not only positions of government forces, but attacks on residential areas intensified.” The reconciliation center said in a daily bulletin posted by the Russian Defense Ministry on Thursday.

"On Wednesday, the center said that a group of at least 160 al-Nusra Front militants had crossed the border with Turkey in the north of Idlib province and were heading for the Aleppo area to reinforce terrorists fighting there, Sputnik reports."

In continuous attacks, Terrorists from the Nusra Front terrorist group have carried out shillings in the Syrian province of Aleppo, injuring several civilians and killing a child, according to he same source.

A child was killed as a result and 8 civilians were injured, according to the representative.

"Tonight, militants from the international terrorist organization Jabhat al-Nusra shelled the city of Handarat and the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood [Kurdish neighborhood in the city of Aleppo] in the province of Aleppo," the representative said on Friday.

Meanwhile Syrian army backed by its allies and Kurdish led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are preparing to launch a massive military operation against the Islamic State (ISIS / Daesh / ISIL and IS) terrorists who are currently controlling the strategic Anadan Plains, Northwest of Aleppo province.

The goal is recapuuring strategic city of Manbij which is supply route for ISIS terrorist between Turkey border and Daesh self-proclaimed capital of its caliphate Raqqa.